Monthly Archives: August 2009

Ted Kennedy Has Died

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Gaius

ABC News: Tweet

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Gee, What If They Aren’t Un-American?

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

This is fairly shocking. The New York Times discovers that a lot of people who oppose ObamaCare are not raving lunatics – something the Times has not exactly been reporting before now. There are (as many of us have said … Continue reading →

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The Mandate Of Heaven

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

If you come here to the Crabitat and never actually click through to a linked article I post about and call a must read, I’d ask that you consider clicking through this time. This essay by Fouad Ajami in The … Continue reading →

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Pay No Attention To That Deficit Behind The Curtain

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

Economy: bad. Revenues: worse. Outlays: enormous. Deficit: exploding. Unemployment: thermonuclear. Answer? Spend even more, according to Barack Obama’s budget director, Peter “Pills All Around” Orszag. U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will be … Continue reading →

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After The (Fender) Bender

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Gaius

Comes the hangover. Car dealers are bracing for the hangover after their taxpayer-funded sales bender. Sales of automobiles are expected to plummet now that the cash for clunkers spigot has been turned off. After the heady rush of Clunkers sales, … Continue reading →

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Nice Thought, But Little Chance

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Gaius

William McGurn: On this day in 1994, Bill Clinton’s presidency was saved. It didn’t look that way at the time. After threatening to keep Congress in session until a health-care bill was passed, then Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell gave … Continue reading →

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Deficits, Deficits, Deficits…..

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Gaius

It’s the deficits, stupid. USA Today: Lawmakers said Sunday that President Obama must scale back ambitious plans to overhaul health care because ballooning budget deficits are undermining support for more comprehensive and costly legislation. As the White House prepares to … Continue reading →

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Quick! Let’s Change The Subject!

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Gaius

The Washington Post: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism … Continue reading →

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Save The Planet

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Gaius

Squash a leftist boycott. Andrew Breitbart: The Democratic leadership – and its friends in the mainstream media – seem determined to brand opposition to the president’s legislative agenda as illegitimate, even racist in origin. Individuals and grass-roots organizations are helping … Continue reading →

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Yabba, Dabba, I Do

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Gaius

A double wedding in Britain – with the happy couples dressed up as characters from The Flintstones: Two couples, Andrea and Simon Bean and Richard and Jill Noble, recreated The Flintstones for their weddings as they dressed in Stone Age … Continue reading →

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Diamonds Are Forever….

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Gaius

….Except when they are not. South Africa is running out of diamonds: The glittering diamonds are almost gone and as the lustre fades on South Africa’s Diamond Coast, desperate ghost towns are left clinging to the last signs of life. … Continue reading →

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It’s The Economy Government, Stupid

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Gaius

Matt Welch: An ABC/Washington Post poll from June showed people preferred “smaller government with fewer services” over “larger government with more services” by 54% to 41%, up from 50%-45% a year earlier (independents were even more pronounced, at 61%-35%). A … Continue reading →

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Harry’s Got A Problem

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Gaius

Harry “Hunker in the Bunker” Reid has a problem looming in 2010. Up for reelection, Harry is trailing – badly – a couple of pretty-well unknown Republican challengers. It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer … Continue reading →

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The Lefty Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Gaius

Katherine Kersten in (of all places) The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: I thought folks on the left loved protesters — the rowdier, the better. Liberals are fond of reminding us that free speech is sacred, and that dissent — “speaking truth to … Continue reading →

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A Lesson From The Godfather

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Gaius

Michael Goodwin: We could call it doubling down on a mistake. Or drawing a partisan line in the sand. But this is Barack Obama and his favorite movie is – I’m not making this up – “The Godfather,” so let’s … Continue reading →

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